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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
froth \froth\, v. t. imp. p. p. frothed; p. pr. vb. n..
frothing.
1. to cause to foam.
1913 webster
2. to spit, vent, or eject, as froth.
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he . . . froths treason at his mouth. --dryden.
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is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more?
--tennyson.
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3. to cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain.
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see also:
frothed frothing
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
froth \froth\, v. i.
to throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as beer
froths; a horse froths.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
froth \froth\, n. oe. frothe, icel. froetha; akin to dan.
fraade, sw. fradga, as. =afreoethan to froth.
1913 webster
1. the bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or
agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by
disease or nervous excitement.
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2. any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric
without thought. --johnson.
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it was a long speech, but all froth. --l'estrange.
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3. light, unsubstantial matter. --tusser.
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froth insect zool., the cuckoo spit or frog hopper; --
called also froth spit, froth worm, and froth fly.
froth spit. see cuckoo spit, under cuckoo.
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see also:
froth insect froth spit froth worm froth fly froth spit cuckoo spit
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
froth
n : a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid syn: foam
v 1: form bubbles; "the boiling soup was frothing"; "the river
was foaming"; "sparkling water" syn: foam, fizz, effervesce,
sparkle
2: make froth or foam and become bubbly; "the river foamed"
syn: spume, suds
see also:
foam fizz effervesce sparkle spume suds
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
132 moby thesaurus words for "froth":
aerate, air, alluvion, alluvium, ash, babble, beat, breakers,
bric-a-brac, bubble, bubbles, chaff, chicken feed, chickenshit,
chip, cinder, clinker, cobweb, collar, cork, cream, deposition,
deposits, details, diluvium, down, draff, dregs, dribble, drivel,
drool, dross, dust, effervesce, ember, ether, expectoration, fairy,
feather, feces, fizz, flippancy, flue, fluff, foam, frivolity,
fuzz, gab, gas, gibberish, gimcrackery, gossamer, grounds, head,
hot air, knickknackery, lather, lees, levity, lightness, loess,
mantle, meringue, minutiae, moraine, mote, mousse, mouth-watering,
nonsense, offscum, peanuts, piffle, plash, precipitate,
precipitation, ptyalism, puff, rubbish, saliva, salivate,
salivation, scoria, scud, scum, sea foam, sediment, settlings,
shower, sialagogue, silt, sinter, slabber, slag, slaver, slobber,
slosh, small beer, small change, smut, soapsuds, soot, souffle,
sparge, spatter, spindrift, spit, spittle, splash, splatter,
sponge, spoondrift, spray, sprinkle, spume, sputum, stinging,
straw, sublimate, sud, suds, surf, swash, thistledown, trash,
trifles, trivia, trumpery, twaddle, whip, whisk, white water,
yeast
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